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A BRIEF HISTORY OF VICE
By: Robert Evans
How Bad Behavior Built Civilization
Plume
August 2016
On Sale: August 9, 2016
272 pages
ISBN: 0147517605
EAN: 9780147517609
Kindle: B01839Q4ZE
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Humor
History has never been more funโor more intoxicating.
Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our civilization. Cracked editor Robert Evans brings his signature dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent ways vice has influenced history, from the prostitute-turned-empress who scored a major victory for womenโs rights to the beer that helped createโand destroyโSouth America's first empire. And Evans goes deeper than simply writing about ancient debauchery; he recreates some of history's most enjoyable (and most painful) vices and includes guides so you can follow along at home. Youโll learn how to:
โข Trip like a Greek philosopher.
โข Rave like your Stone Age ancestors.
โข Get drunk like a Sumerian.
โข Smoke a nose pipe like a preโColumbian Native American.
A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide.
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